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The Minnesota Star Tribune writer John Millea has an excellent article about scholarship athletes in all of collegiate sports. The article talks with Minnesota commitment Kevin Kray who received 1/2 of a scholarship for his freshman campaign for the 2010 season. He states that he thought that all scholarship offers in college were full rides but was clearly wrong as 60 percent of all student athletes don’t even have any aid. Kray believes that he can play himself to a bigger scholarship but I highly doubt a collegiate coach will increase a player on the team currently. You can check out the full article by clicking here.
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Brian,
I think he meant future years that he was hoping to be able to increase his scholarship amount.
any way great article that needs to be read by everybody.
Oh who doesn’t want their scholarship money increased. I just don’t know why a coach would increase a kid on campus scholarship money when he can use that on a recruit.
My cousin pitched for Providence College in the early ’90s. He had a 25% scholarship his freshman year, 50% soph, and full ride his junior & senior year. The reason it was so low his freshman year was, after a great junior year in HS, he was hurt for part of his senior year. The Providence coach told him that if he was healthy and effective, he would increase the aid, and was true to his word, so it does (or at least did) happen.
Was the Coach Charlie Hickey??
PC wasn’t giving out many scholarships back then from what I remember.
I was a diehard Providence fan back then and likely saw your cousin play a few times.
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